Very strange problems with SAMBA_TNG

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Volker Christian wrote:

> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I don't want to mess up this list with stupid questions, so if this is one
> of these, please ignore it.
> 
> I have a very strange problem when using one of the newer (and also the
> newest I get today via cvs) tng-code. A approximately two weeks old code
> works fine (I am sorry, I don't know exactly the day I checked the working
> code out from the repository).
> 
> The problem is the following. Every time I want connect to the server as a
> user with a username longer then three characters smbd crashes. The effect
> is the same when I want to join the domain maintained by the samba-PDC with
> a WinNT box with a netbios-name longer then three characters. I really
> played around long with it - also I set up a second linux-box with a late
> tng-code - the effect is the same - smbd crashes if ... longer then three
> character.

really???   wierd!

ok, try odd / even names, ok?